Quote from MASTAFLOW76 :

... and screw the bad words I am a messenger ;p

I know this is an old thread but...

Best. Comment. Ever. LMAO

Quote from matijapkc :

Rammstein - Sonne

+1

Quote from cyclo :

bmw rally car
and btw more rally cars :d

+1

First, you have to know which skin you want to edit. go to your LFS/data/skins folder to see which skin you want to fool around with, then make a duplicate of it, and name it whatever you want. For example: If you want to edit a skin for the XFG car, look for the XFG_DEFAULT.jpg, and duplicate it. (name it something else, like: XFG_myskin.jpg)

after that, download this: http://www.lfs.net/file_mirror.php?name=LFS_VIEWER_6A.exe
extract it to a folder called LFSviewer and put it wherever,
drag the skin you want to edit to the LFSviewer/data/skins folder,
open the skin you are trying to edit in Photoshop.


Photoshop is nowhere near as complicated as people claim it is. Chances are;

• if you know how to use Microsoft Paint, you already know how to use Photoshop.
  
• If you know how to copy and paste, you know how to use Photoshop.
  
• If you know how to type with text and change fonts in a word processor, you know how to use Photoshop.
  
• If you know how to read, you can use Photoshop.
  
• If you have a soul, you know how to use photoshop.
  

The only thing you really have to learn how to do is use the little LAYERS window.


this is the most important element in making a skin, and it is also probably the easiest thing in Photoshop, not to mention, it's the most awesome thing in the universe.

If you want to add a design from another document or a picture, drag it on your skin. if you want to add some text, use the tool in the tools menu that looks like a T, click on an area of the skin you are editing, then start typing.
If you want to move a picture or text you added around on your skin, use the move tool. (it's the tool on the upper rig ... . It looks like an arrow.)

you can go to the file menu -> save as... save it in the same place with the same name, replacing the old file, then open the CMX viewer in the LFSviewer folder to preview how your skin is going to look.

ALWAYS save a copy of the document as a .psd document so you can edit it in the future.

I know this is some pretty half-assed information, (sorry 'bout that,) but this should help you at least get started on making a skin. I think you can figure the majority of the other stuff out on your own. After you make a skin, we can start talking about uploading your skin to lfsworld.net so that everyone you race against can see it.

I bought my S2 License with a U.S. debit card. I just clicked the Visa card option.

If your credit card isn't supported, (I'm assuming you have American Express or Discover card) then I don't know what to tell you.

Get a Paypal account.

Quote from DragonCommando :

Also, You know how often I've come across morons? I can count it out even after said decades and thousands of servers. I come across no more than one or two retards a month, A WHOLE MONTH. And I used to play every day, for a few hours.

Wow, only two a month? holy $#!t XDDD

Quote from justasimfan :

As for the models themselves how difficult is to simplify a model ? Simply reduce the polygon number...
The same with textures...I mean you can have 4096x4096 textures simply converted to lower resolutions in seconds with photoshop....

Quote from ATiRAGEPRO :

.... Have you ever tried decreasing the polygon of a Freeform Mesh Object? automatic polygon pruning in 3d programs either DON'T WORK, or they leave your object looking like a six-sided turd! Most of the wire frame ends up having to be pruned manually, and there is no bigger pain in the ass than buying an object from sites like renderosity.com, and having to erase most of it's mesh so that it can actually RUN in a game. It is a f***ing nightmare to have to do that. If the Devs actually DID waste their money on those models, there is no way in hell those cars are going to run well on any decent computer, let alone laptops that only run DirectX8.1.

Five Finger Death Punch - Way of the fist

NEXT:
Five finger death punch - Can't Heal You
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Quote from justasimfan :

Well almost every single game out there for those that don't have a clue about game design cost dozen of thousands of dollars to make and some even cost hundreds or even millions of dollars.You think 2000 dollars to update all the cars in a game and add a couple more if a lot ?It's a steal.Turbosquid as some other 3d marketplaces uses content people created so everybody sort of wins.Some money go to the site,some to the original creator(who will get multiplay sales for each model) and a lot of money and time is saved by the people that use those models and assets.

This is a complete non-issue. There is already a model designer on the team. for you to even mention development costs is a complete waste of time. The cars are fine the way they are, and I find it hard to imagine anything more idiotic than buying third-party models to replace the ones in the game already. I can't stress enough how much of an incredibly stupid waste of time and money that is.I'm not trying to be a complete @$$hole here, either. I've seen many good Ideas shot down for some of the stupidest possible reasons, but this isn't one of those examples.

Quote from justasimfan :

A "proffetional game designer "-somebody that has worked on previous games or has attended a gaming university may ask 30-40.000 dollars a year to work on a game.Even the best designers need a week or two to model a car with that level of detail.Modeling 2 dozens would require around a year of work....

why are you bringing this up? there is already a model designer on the team. Should he be fired in favor of buying bloatware car models from turbosquid.com? Do you understand how batsh!t insane it is to replace perfectly good looking car models that probably took months to perfect and develop and replacing them all with overbloated slow as sh!t models that probably won't run well on more than half of the current LFS player's computers?

Quote from justasimfan :

But with 1000-2000 $ you can have them immediately and that would only leave the physics to be tweaked by the devs.

WHY THE HELL SHOULD THE CAR MODELS BE REPLACED??? I understand adding a few extra cars to the game using this method, but why replace the existing cars??

You aren't even reading this, are you? You have just flat-out ignored every post I made since the the other thread, and now you're just ignoring more than half of the replies in this thread as well. Every time someone asks you a simple question, (WHY SHOULD THE CAR MODELS BE REPLACED,) you either ignore or side-step the question and pretend it isn't there.

I looked at the rest of your post and about 100% of everything you have ever discussed on this site is about replacing the car models. are you even capable of discussing anything else??

Last edited by ATiRAGEPRO, Thu 16 Sep 2010, 15:58. Reason : link to the other thread

Quote from IceMan31x :

.... all sounds great and all... but seriously, who the hell in thier right mind would spend nearly $2000 dollars for sim cars? lol im sorry but if i was willing to spend that much on a sim game, i have more real life racecar stuff to buy, not virtual cars that look like renders... nice work.. but way to over the top! Devs keep it up your doing just fine!

+2

This is one of the worst ideas I've seen here, to be honest. I don't want to seem like one of the many anal retentive members on this site that always shoot down a good Idea for some really stupid reasons, (we have a lot of members like that on this forum,:really but this Idea is just plain horrible. Period.

Glenn Beck knows THE TRUTH!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtvqzK3SX2U :bowdown:

Quote from Breizh :

Where did I argue for that kind of five figure expense, or that that was one good aspect of the OP suggestion?

you didn't. I never said you did. I was simply compounding your statement.

Quote from Breizh :

I'm not convinced either. The point is that Scavier develop things their own way, they don't only copy real models.

And the OP's point isn't completely off-base. Some of the models are getting old, any way you spin it. The FZ5's exhausts are cartoonish at best now. You wouldn't need a thousand polygons to improve them to "good enough".

You also don't need to spend thousands of dollars replacing every car in the game with cars from turbosquid, when you could just make minor adjustments to the car you already have.

Quote :

Oh my God !! Victor posted in the other thread we also discussed about the models before closing it! Heheh

Not a comment through about the models.....At least he read about them and maybe checked them out ( i hope )

Why are you so excited? Are you some kind of fangirl or something? You're all like: "Liek oh-MiGod, guys! Victor just like totally sort-of looked at my link maybe!!! That is like, sooo f***ing fabulous, guyz!!!" OK, I'm just Joking. Don't take that seriously.

Anywho, I think you need to start making your own racing sim if these models are so freggen' important to you. Hell, I'd help. We could have multi-platform support and everything.

In the meantime, I don't think shoving this turbosquid link up the developers @$$es is is a very good Idea. If the devs really wanted to do this, they would have done it back in 2005.

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Quote from DeadWolfBones :

this is racer x, basically:

That's me, actually.

Anywho, I think The Amazing Athiest said it best:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4XJQO3qol8

Quote from justasimfan :

Please if Scawen ,Victor and Eric ,if you read this check the following site

http://www.turbosquid.com/Search/3D-Models/Vehicle/Car

You are a tad bit too enthusiastic about this, to be honest. It's like you're only on this site to post that link over and over again like FREE iPod spam or something. You have been doing this for a while now, and it's the only thing you seem to talk about.

To be honest, I like the user-made content Idea you had in that other thread, but when you started talking about REPLACING CAR MODELS THAT WERE ALREADY IN THE GAME, I was flabbergasted at how stupid of an idea that was.

To repeat what I had said in the other thread:

Quote from ATiRAGEPRO :

.... Have you ever tried decreasing the polygon of a Freeform Mesh Object? automatic polygon pruning in 3d programs either DON'T WORK, or they leave your object looking like a six-sided turd! Most of the wire frame ends up having to be pruned manually, and there is no bigger pain in the ass than buying an object from sites like renderosity.com, and having to erase most of it's mesh so that it can actually RUN in a game. It is a f***ing nightmare to have to do that. If the Devs actually DID waste their money on those models, there is no way in hell those cars are going to run well on any decent computer, let alone laptops that only run DirectX8.1.

Dude, if you are really so in love with those car models, you might want to start making your own racing sim.

... What? I'm serious!

Quote from Racer X NZ :

Your Govt would never lie to you.
They would never test nuclear weapons on US citizens in America.
They would never create an event to get the US into a war.
They would never have a plan to crash airliners into buildings in America.
They would never lie about WMD's.

Please go back to sleep and whatever you do please never actually investigate anything, the tv will tell you exactly what you should believe.

Quote from Racer X NZ :

Can anyone say diversion theory.

Get all the sheeple arguing over this convenient redneck and that prevents anyone actually thinking or asking awkward questions re 9/11.

It certainly buries any intellegent comment under a convenient thick layer of dros.

I wonder what they're planning for next year's 10th, I think we can be confident that it isn't likely to be answers to the outstanding questions.

I'm not interested in reopening any discussions re 9/11, I just can't help smiling at the way people nearly always do what their told to do by the 'media'.

"Thats good little sheeple, wake up, be outraged till after 9/11, now please go back to sleep, CNN/ Fox/ BBC etc are telling you to.
Nothing to see here."

QFT

Quote from mookie427 :

That's where you're wrong - it's a Mosque within a 'community centre'

There are Auditoriums in schools, also. who cares?

That's like saying that because a house has a bathroom, the entire house is one big bathroom.

Quote from PMD9409 :

Wow, you guys care about this more than Americans.

I know, right?

Quote from AtomAnt :

You want he 911.

I'm Canadian, we landed all the planes that day, we only Gander

Build a Mosh on my soil

Bunch of ...

I have no idea what you just said.

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I'm listening to Japanese emo rock bands as they complain about political genocide, whilst looking like Ronald Mc.Donald had a lovechild with Merilyn Manson, after being ran over by a Hot-Topic truck.
I especially like the "EngRish" they use to convey their dissaproval of foreign policy in impoverished areas of the world, thus encouraging said politicians to commit suicide for dishonoring themselves.

The Gazette - The Invisible Wall

I like that song.

Last edited by ATiRAGEPRO, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 08:16. Reason : wrong link.

Logitech MOMO force feedback wheel: $92.00
LFS S2 License: $41.21
Money to keep my skins viewable online: $16.00
Having no-one in your region you can race with online: Priceless.

There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's $149.21.

Quote from AMB :

Anyway I spent over 9000 on LFS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiMHTK15Pik

NAPPA: "What?? Nine thousand?? there's no way that can be right!!"